AI Hardware & LLM Intelligence

Developer uses AI to bring a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS — no emulation required to play one of gaming's all-time greats on an iPhone or iPad

A developer has used OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol to help port a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS and iPadOS devices.

An affordable OLED laptop for just $699 — Acer's Swift Go 16 AI is the perfect back-to-school deal

Get ready to head back to school with this $300 saving on Acer's excellent Swift Go 16 AI laptop with an OLED screen.

Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible

Techie "finds" Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though proto...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.

One year into the AI-induced RAM apocalypse — how much does memory actually cost, and is there hope for a more affordable future?

We look at the state of the DIY RAM market over the last 12 months.

Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna

Apple launched its Upgrade program in the US, a partnership with Klarna to lease Macs along with iPads, Watches, and iPhones.

The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to pre-order starting from $249 — game cartridges cost $90 each; the Ultimate Edition with all games and accessories will run you $1,000

How far are you willing to go for physical media? That's the question the Neo Geo AES+ asks above anything else, given the $90 price tags of its game cartridges...

Acer ProDesigner PE320QXT professional monitor review: Touchscreen functionality with a 6K resolution

Acer takes a unique approach to professional displays with its ProDesigner PE320QXT. It’s a 6K 6016x3384 IPS panel with a touchscreen, webcam, tablet-style stan...

Motherboard VRM thermal testing – budget vs. high-end boards, does it really matter?

Not all motherboard VRMs are created equal. We break down the differences between budget and premium designs, how they can affect CPU performance, and whether p...

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and ...

The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale

Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU

5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search

These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning tasks.

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find...

NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics

How AI is expanding what people do at work

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their h...

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US...

AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last qua...

Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recu...

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into comp...

Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI sys...